CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eleven Biotherapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company creating novel and differentiated protein-based biotherapeutics for the treatment of ocular diseases, announced today that they have entered into a research collaboration and license agreement with ThromboGenics NV to research and develop a protein therapeutic based on a novel biologic target implicated in ophthalmic disease. The collaboration aims to employ Eleven’s proprietary AMP-Rx protein design technology to optimize a novel therapeutic of ThromboGenics’ selection to have improved pharmaceutical characteristics and therapeutic benefits. The novel biologic will be designed to treat back of the eye diseases such as diabetic macular edema.